Product details
ISBN
9780140119930
Published
1993-02-04
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
445 gr
Height
199 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
38 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
640
Author
Biographical note
Barry Unsworth won the Booker Prize with SACRED HUNGER and has been shortlisted for PASCALI'S ISLAND and MORALITY PLAY. He is author of many other acclaimed novels. Originally from Durham he now lives in Italy.WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE
'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent
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A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize.
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Product details
ISBN
9780140119930
Published
1993-02-04
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
445 gr
Height
199 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
38 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
640
Author